I'm an information designer and programmer with five years experience working on interactive graphics, web cartography, and visual storytelling. I specialize in designing data into usable, clear interfaces.

I built the WNYC Sleep app, a simple app for recording data about your previous night's sleep, for WNYC's two-month investigation into New Yorker's sleep and sleep habits. Around 2,000 people used the app every night to track their sleep and report it back to us.

Half in Ten Indicators

Half in Ten's "Restoring Shared Prosperity" project aggregates key statistics relating to poverty. It was designed to go along with an annual series of reports (of the same name) and is meant to show data over the course of a decade. (The indicators project has been redesigned since.)

A custom-made interactive map, designed to show how the US distributes foreign aid money. At the time this was created, more modern solutions (kartograph.js, d3.geo) didn't exist, so this is entirely custom-built using dojo's graphics library.

Half in Ten

CAP's Half in Ten Project outgrew its original website, and needed a new site that emphasized its state partner organizations, regular petitions and calls to action, and deeper reporting (like the indicators project, above). (The site has been re-designed since.)

While Congress was negotiating the 2010 federal budget, Republicans insisted on making deep cuts to "non-defense discretionary" spending. We wanted a way to show how small a portion of the budget this was, so I created what I dubbed the "flying pie chart".

The map was designed to catalog airstrikes being made by the CIA over northwestern Pakistan. Initially, bombings were few and far between, but at the end of the Bush administration, the airstrikes accelerated. (No longer available.)